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No. 625,279. Patontad May "5,1899.

8. R. SPODBE.

WIRE FENCE STAY.

(Application 810d Aug. 80, 189B.)

(llolodeL) .ziiiomqy UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

RANSOM R. SPOORE, OF NEIVARK, NEWV YORK, ASSIGNOR OF ONE-HALF TO JOSEPH M. RAUB, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

WIRE-FENCE STAY.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 625,279, dated May 16, 1899.

Application filed August 30, 1898.

To (1 whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, RANSOM R. SPooRE, a citizen of the United States, residing at New ark, in the countyof \Vayne and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Stays for \Vire Fences, of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates to improvements in stays or supports for the panels of wire fences and the'locks for securing the wires thereof to the stays; and it consists in certain details of construction, which will be hereinafter fully described in the specification, illustrated in the drawings, and pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings which fully illustrate my invention, Figure 1 is a front elevation of a stayhaving the fence-wires securely attached by means of locking-plates. Fig. 2 is a sectional and Fig. 3 is a rear View of the same. Fig. i shows in plan a single wire engaged with the stay and locking-plate. Figs. 5, 6, and '7 show steps in the method of securing the locking device. Fig. 8 shows the blank or locking-plate before bending, and Fig. 9 shows the same bent into position to receive the wire and the stay before the edges are forced together.

A is a ribbed or channeled metal stay located intermediate of the main fence-posts to support the lines of wires C and provided on its ribbed edges with a series of notches a at certain distances apart, in which wires enter and are supported by the locking-plate.

B is a flexible metal locking-plate which is to be bent over each of the wires and against the rear side of the stay, the stay being passed between the wire and the pivot of the locking-plate. This plate 13, shown as a blank: in 0 Fig. 8,'is stamped or cut from steel or malleable iron, having a rectangular opening I) in its center and ears Z) at or near its ends, which ears form pivot-bearings against the rear of the stayA when the plate is bent into position to lock the wire against the front of the stay. The advantages obtained from semi No. 689,887. (No model.)

making the ends of the ears convex in form are such that when pressure is brought to bear against the rear of the stay said pressure will be centrally directed upon the stayand exert a uniform pressure thereon in such manner as to avoid any tendency the stay may have of working out of alinement between the locking ears or plates and wires, this defect being usually common in locking-plates of the ordinary construction, while by my form of plate all of the assembled parts of the device are rigidly and securely locked together. The side bars 12 of the locking-plate when bent form loops to engage the wire with the notches in the front edges or ribs of the stay. This locking-plate Bis first bent into the position shown in Fig. 9. Then it is passed over the wire until the latter is encircled by loops formed by the side bars b in bending the plate. The stay is then passed between the wire and the pivot-plates and the wire is held in the notches a of the stay. Then the ends b are pressed against the stay, which securely locks the wire into the notches, as clearly in 7c dicated in the drawings. The lower end of the stay may rest on the ground or on a block or stone.

Having thus fully described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The locking-plate B, having convex lips upon the inner portions of its ends, said lips being formed integrally with the plate B; whereby pressure is centrally directed against the stay by the ears and the same retained in alinement with the stay in combination with the rectangular notched and channeled stays A, and the wires 0, all constructed arranged and operated, as herein shown and described.

In testimony whereof I affix my signature in presence of two witnesses.

RANSOM R. SPOORE. 

